Fish farms can halve imports says expert

Manama, June 19, 2010

Bahrain could almost halve the amount of fish it needs to import annually if the private sector embraced the idea of fish farms, says an expert.

Overseas produce accounts for 40 per cent of the local market, according to National Pisciculture Centre head Dr Abdulredha Shams. But he says this could be drastically reduced if more fish farms were introduced.